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Patented July 3, 1883.

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New Yonx, N. Y.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,712, dated July 3, 1883. 2

To a/ZZ whom t may Be it known that l, of Weehawken,

5 of which the following My invention relates to the class of shirts having double fronts or posable.

1o the bosoms, attached to on oneside to being provided with centrally-located buttonholes for engagement with ffixed to the under side of the a vertical fly a other front,

posed of two vertical strips of permanently affixed along one of and the second being con# by a lacing-cord inserted through eyelets'located in suitable proximity to the body of the shirt, 2o nected to the first the adjoining vertical The accompanying drawings,

follows: y

1 is an 'elevation of the shirt, showing the laced bosomimposed upon and concealing the plain bosom.

thelacedbosom to view the plain invention, are as 2 5 Figure elevation,with and exposing 3o it.

laced bosom. Fig. 4 through the line x x on struction of the lapping parts.

The drawings represent a woolen shirt, to

the body A of which collar, B. The front of the shirt is is composed of two overlapping D, one attached to or o of one' side, @,of the tached tor or forming a er side, a', of the body. are capable" of transposition,

may be worn in front 5 relatively modes of ornamentation.

comparatively plain, C C, worked in its 'is represented'as two button-holes,

vertical line c and several 5o stitching along its'vertical edges c and c2, and

New Jersey, certain Improvement in Double-Front Shirts,

I employ one front composed of a strip of fabric of suitable width to form one of the said strip the body of the shirt from the top the said other front being com- Fig.` 3 is a similar plain bosom imposed upon and vconcealing the vdifferent forms of construction or` Application filed April l1, 1883. (No model.) concern.- f along its bottom edge, ci. The connection of ALBERT BORCHARDT, the body of the shirt with the bosom G begins have invented a at the center c* of its bottom edge, and the vertical rows of stitching c2 are at the same dis tance from the central line c as are the rows of stitching c along its free vertical edge. The upper free corner of the bosom C is provided with the usual button-hole, c5, for engaging a button, c6, fastenedto the neckband of the shirt, in position where it can be concealed from view by a necktie, or by the turned-over portion b2 of the collar B.

The bosom D is represented as having on each side, respectively, of its central vertical line d two parallel vertical rows of eyelet-holes, d', through which a lacing-cord, d2, is run in the usual manner.

is a specification.

bosoms which are transbeing permanently edge, and

buttons secured to On either side of the eye let-holes are several parallel rows of stitching, d3 d4, which extend across the bottom of the bosom D and meet in the middle thereof. Parallel rows of stitching d5 di near the central vertical line d, and may be employed to give the appearance of a central vertical opening in a bosom which is continuous. 'If my invention is carried out by the employment of the method of construction shown inthe drawings, the rows of stitching d5 and d may be used to unite the'webs of fab ric of which the two partsv D and D2 bosom D are respectively composed. In this case the part D2 is separate from the 'part D', and is secured thereto by fabric, the first its sides to edges of the two strips.` illustrating my Eig. 2 is a similar turned outward bosom beneath elevation, showing the the lacing-cord d2. The free upper corner, d?, of the part D2 is provided with the button-hole dE5 for engaging with a button, d, affixed to the neckband of the shirt in a position corresponding to that of thc button c,

The free vertical edge d1 of the part D2 may if requiredv be provided with the hooks E l for engagement with eyes fastened to or eyelet Ithe fixed edge of the part c of th is a transverse section Fig.' l, showing the conis attached a turn-over double, and bosoms, G and forming a continuationV body, and the other atcontinuation of the oth- These bosoms, which so that either oneother, may` have bosom D.

A fly, F, to which are fastened the buttor ff, is attached to the inner side of the part] of the bosom D, and when the plain bosom worn in front of the laced bosom the butto] havingf are inserted through the vertical openii central between the parts D 'and D2 of the bosom l parallel rows of and are thenin positionto be engaged by t button-holes C C', worked in the'bosom G.

of the Thus the bosom C extend along bosom,

ployed in place will ofcourse be understood that the ily F may, if desired, be provided'with button-holes or eyelet-holes, in which case studs may be emof the buttons ff.

The mode of constructing the two bosoms C and D may of course be varied Without departing from my invention.

In the construction illustrated in the drarings, the details of which are especially shown in Fig. 4, a vertical cut is made a little to the left of the center of the front of the body, so that when turned the vertical edge of the rigl1thand side, a, of the body will be in the center of the front. A strip of suitable Width, having its edges properly turned, is then sewed on the side c of the body,'with its left-hand vertical edge matching the turned`over edge ofthe part a. This forms the part D of the bosom D. The part D2 ofthe bosom Dis formed of two or more strips of fabric snitabll sewed together, and is connected with the part D by the lacing-oord, as shown. L

e bosom C is composed of a narrow strip sewed to the vertical edge of the side a of the body, and of :L wider strip, which forms the 2 exterior of the bosom one vertical edge of Strip,

ALBERT BORCHARDT.

VitneSSeS EDW. E. QUIMBY,

R. C. Howes. 

